Depends on what you mean by “cutting the lows”.
Unless I want to slap an HPF filter in there, the shelves on the 5033 are just fine more often than not.
I must admit I generally use the Portico as a buss or group EQ though, rather than a track one - for those duties I would usually pull up a 1073/1080/31102 instead. To my way of working it seems to belong on groups & busses as if it were designed for that task and it is almost impossible to get it to actually sound bad. You can manage “poor” with it, but outright “bad” is something this little beast does not seem to understand.
You’ll have a lot of fun with the 5043 as well - in VST3 with the sidechain (and if the sidechain is not there then download the update) getting you a host of options unlocked.